Police: 7 teens shot near Detroit school

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Police: 7 teens shot near Detroit school - Yahoo! News

DETROIT – Gunmen in a green minivan opened fire on a group of teenagers waiting at a bus stop near a Detroit school on Tuesday, wounding seven including three who were in critical condition, authorities said.
Five of the teens had just left Cody Ninth Grade Academy, where they were taking summer classes, when they were shot at the nearby bus stop.
The gunmen exited a vehicle and "asked for a person by name" before they "opened fire at the crowd," said Detroit Public Schools Police Chief Roderick Grimes.
Detroit Police were looking for two suspects in a green minivan, said spokesman Rod Liggons. Officers were interviewing some of the victims in the hospital Tuesday evening, he said.
The teenagers, four boys and three girls, range in age from 14 to 17 years old, Liggons said. Three of the teens were in critical condition, he said.
Gas station owner Steve Hakim said he saw two people with T-shirts covering their heads run across his lot toward the bus stop. Then he heard about 10 gunshots, saw a boy and a girl fall down and called 911.
"It's pretty scary," Hakim said. "Somebody's got to do something."
Police were reviewing video taken from the gas station's security cameras and took a disc containing the footage, Hakim said.
Another summer school student, 15-year-old Bria Wilson, said she was standing at the bus stop when she heard the gunfire. She said she was facing away from the shooters and ran away after the shots were fired. But she saw a 16-year-old male friend lying on the ground, bleeding.
"They were so close — it almost hit me," she said.
Schools spokesman Steve Wasko said there was "nothing that we're aware of at this time" linking the shootings with any fight or dispute at the school.
He said the shootings happened about 2:15 p.m., about 15 minutes after summer school students were dismissed for the day.
Imam Abdullah El-Amin, who co-owns the Numan Funeral Home near the intersection where the shooting took place, said drug-dealing, prostitution and "hopelessness" are common in the area, he said.
"It's terrible that these things are just laying there, festering, in society — time bombs waiting to happen," said El-Amin, a Muslim minister and candidate for Detroit City Council.

[maryk]

Wow did the cops actually show up for once? If so, it ONLY took 7 kids dying.

Poor kids and their families.

[Chimera]

Saddest story today. I feel for those kids.

[Aella]

I'm rarely affected by news stories, but that really got to me. Those poor kids, they were just waiting for the bus.

[Brookie]

For the record, nobody has died. Three of the teens are critical. Stupid stupid stuff. May have stemmed from a fight at the school earlier in the week. It happened about a mile from where I used to live. It's not considered a "bad" area. The street it happened on is a main, busy thoroughfare that intersects with an expressway. And the building it took place outside of isn't a regular school; it's a building that the Detroit Public Schools are using as a summer school. Sickening.

[DitaPage*]

That's so depressing. Can't even stand at a bus stop anymore.

[kingcap72]

Sad story. If this wasn't a personal vendetta, it could've just been some stupid gang initiation where you just had to shoot anybody at random.

[Mr. Authority]

Yeah it's very upsetting. Gangs are yet another problem Detroit faces these days, along with a shitty city council and joblessness that has the city on it's knees. Just terrible.

[Palermo]

I grew up in Detroit, it's always been bad. Add all the unemployment to it and it's so much worse.

[cmmdee]

Scary. I hope they find the bastards who did it.

[ManxMouse]

Detroit is like a third world country now. Property is worth nothing, unemployment, lawlessness, official corruption....just raze it and be done with it.